SAMUEL G. POOL

SAMUEL G. POOL was born in Delaware County, Ohio, May 29, 1841. , He is a son of Peter and Frances (Wilson) Pool. He was but eighteen months old when his parents removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where they resided for a time; they then went to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where Samuel G. grew to manhood. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools. His father died when he was but a lad. At the age of seventeen years he came to Iowa, settling in Davenport, where he worked eighteen months at the carpenter's trade. He then went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained eighteen months, engaged in working at his trade. He next spent eight months at Alton, Illinois, and then went to New Orleans, where he spent one month, just before the war. Here he heard prominent rebels make speeches, encouraging their hearers to fight for the Confederacy, to go to Washington, take the city, and kill Lincoln. He returned to the north, being one of the last permitted to leave New Orleans for the north. He went to Salem, Ohio, where his mother resided, and August 13, 1861, he enlisted at the call for 300,000 men, in the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company a. He was first under fire at Snell Mountain, Virginia; Gally Bridge, Virginia; the two battles of Boll Run, Antietam, South Mountain, Nashville, Hooper's Gap, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Dalton, and Resaca, Georgia. Mr. Pool was on active duty all the time with the exception of a very short time when he was in the hospital. He was honorably discharged in 1864, at Chattanooga. In 1865 he returned to the United States Veteran Corps, known as General Hancock's Corps. He was again honorably discharged in March, 1865. He returned to Ohio and worked at the carpenter's trade for four years. Mr. Pool was married July 13, 1860, to Miss Mary C. Brown, a native of West Virginia, and a daughter of Shelton and Juliann (Tucker) Brown. Mrs. Pool's parents moved to Missouri when she was twelve years old, and both died while she was yet a child. In 1870 Mr. Pool came to Shelby County, Iowa, and settled on his present farm of 160 acres; he has a comfortable house, and a grove and orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Pool are the parents of seven children Joseph R., William L., Nevada May, Rolla Adolphus, Ralph Edmond, Nellie Iona, and Ivy Pearl. They lost one child by death, Mount Treveda, who died at the age of nine months. Mr. Pool is a member of the Republican party, and a strong supporter of its principles.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 552. Transcribed and submitted by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs